Kandy’s Little Game.

Evening Star, Issue 7177, 2 April 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)

Kandy’s Little Game.

In the course of his speech explaining bis reasons for resigning the Chancellorship of the Exchequer, Lord Randolph Churchill read a letter from the Marquis of Salisbury, in the course of which the latter said, w'riting on December 22“ The outlook on the Continent is very black. It is not too much to say that chances are in favor of war at an early day. When onCe it breaks out we will not be secure from being involved. Therefore we cannot accept the responsibility of refusing the supplies which the War and Navy Ministers declare necessary.” Mr T. P. Gill, M.P., writing to the ‘New York Tribune,’ says:—“ Lord Randolph ChnrchiU’s sensational speech opens a new and startling crisis. He has flung over Lord Salisbury and the Tory party, has scouted Lord Harrington and the Liberal Unionists, and, strangest of all, has cut asunder the shadowy tie that was supposed to have linked him in secret with Chamberlain. Poor Chamberlain had on Saturday evening cut himself adrift from the two last parties with which he had formed connection after leaving the Liberal camp, and bad hoisted eager signals of invitation to Lord Randolph Churchill. Lord Randolph’s answer tonight amounts to callirfg Chamberlain a fool, and warning him to keep clear of him. Chamberlain is now adrift altogether, and there is no rescue for him, except to return without conditions to Gladstone’s camp. The object of Lord Churchill’s performance is clear. He has seen that he cannot work with the old element of Toryism, and has made up his mind to try and form a party out of the young Tory democracy who believe in him. To-night he appealed from the Tory Party and the House of Commons to the people, and he recalled the fact that it is only tour years since there was hardly a Tory member in the House who could afford him a civil look. He fought them with the people at his back, and he will fight them again. To say that his speech has caused consternation among the Tory and Liberal Unionist ranks is to use a mild expression. Lord Harrington, whom he compared to a rotten crutch, glared at him iu dumb fury while he spoke. There is no doubt that he has severely damaged the Government, and there seems little doubt, whether his victory shall come soon or with a Gladstonian triumph intervening, that come it will, and that if Toryism is to have any future in England at all, Lord Randolph Churchill is its destined leader,”